Visions of Glory & Thom Harrison - Jodi Hildebrandt, Tim Ballard, Chad & Lori Daybell | Ep. 1825

Today we will discuss someone described as the "spiritual leader" of alleged murders Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow, alleged abuser Tim Ballard, and recently imprisoned Jodi Hildebrandt.

Thom Harrison is a prominent Utah therapist who published a book called "Visions of Glory" in 2012, focusing on three of his alleged near-death experiences (including personal visitations from Jesus Christ). Thom Harrison and his book have been highly influential across the Mormon "prepper" neo-fundamentalist community, and particularly in the lives and stories of Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow, Tim Ballard, Jodi Hildebrant, as well as other "preppers" such as Julie Rowe, Rod Meldrum, and alleged abuser-therapist Maurice Harker.

Lauren Matthias ‪@HiddenTrueCrime‬ Megan Connor (Lori Vallow's cousin), and Mindy Caldwell (Mormon super-sluether) will be joining us for this panel discussion.

Episode Show Notes: https://www.mormonstories.org/podcast...

Chapters
00:00:00 Introducing problematic current Mormon characters
00:03:20 Questions we should all be asking
00:12:50 She reached out to Thom Harrison
00:16:40 He wrote this letter to save his membership in the Church
00:22:00 Story of being in Lori’s trial seeing the book
00:36:15 The book is harmful and his ideas attributed to deaths
00:39:37 Excerpt from Tim Ballard’s victim’s statement
00:41:48 Chad Daybell and Julie Rowe were meeting with Thom Harrison
00:48:43 What are the church’s current views on near death experience books?
00:57:35 Clip 1 - My Apostolic Friend
01:08:40 Clip 2 - Thom’s First Post-Death Experience
01:19:55 Clip 3 - Out of Body Experience
01:26:33 Clip 4 - Angels helping during childbirth
01:35:08 Clip 5 - Visiting his wife as a Spirit
01:40:54 Clip 6 - Describing other spirits around him
01:42:10 Clip 7 - Describing evil spirits
01:49:00 How the Church is somewhat responsible
01:53:02 Clip 8 - Ministering of Angels
01:54:26 Clip 9 - Hearing inanimate objects talking to him
02:10:15 Clip 11 - If we are dark or light
02:17:11 Clip 12 - Inviting Dark Spirits
02:21:00 Clip 13 - People from Tahiti
02:24:10 Clip 14 - Pre existence
02:28:11 Clip 15 - Heavenly messenger
02:37:35 Clip 17 - Moving through portals
02:43:12 Clip 18 - Folding the Universe
02:45:22 Clip 19 - Banished to the multiverse
02:49:40 Clip 21 - Spirits possessing a body as it views porn
02:57:00 Clip 22 - Spirits possessing you when you sin
03:00:29 Clip 23 - Evil spirits becoming aggressive and possessing bodies
03:04:38 Clip 24 - The spirits entered a rip in his spirit
03:10:23 Clip 25 - Bar Scenes
03:45:07 Clip 29 - Joseph Smith Jr at the conference
03:49:35 Clip 30 - Portals Among Us
04:00:26 Clip 33 - Seer Stones
04:04:06 Clip 34 - Translated beings do not have children
04:06:47 Clip 35 - Thom Harrison is predicting the Couple’s Ruse
04:12:44 Smoking gun of the book
04:28:00 Clip 38 - Final Clip
04:33:30 Reading Thom’s entire letter
04:43:25 Main points of this book
04:53:00 Closing statements

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